After breakfast we went outside to rake leaves and play in the yard. That turned into a soccer game which led Lehr and I to discuss Eli's future soccer career. We have a state-of-the-art soccer complex and organization just a few miles from our house, so we want to sign Eli up for the spring session (the earliest he could play, given his age). I am trying to use that as a dangling-carrot to entice him to seal the deal on this potty training thing. He is so close! Anyway, as we were talking we decided to drive up there with a few sandwiches and let the kids watch a few games. Maddux and Eli loved it. During the first game we watched, Eli shouted "GO!!" to one of the players and then snuggled into my arm, as if he was embarrassed by his sudden outburst of team spirit. Too funny. Maddux focused more on the food than the soccer, but she seemed to enjoy watching the soccer players run around also.
A few new phrases and words from Eli in recent weeks:
- "Aftername" We carved our pumpkin with a pattern titled, 'Flack Jack'. Eli reversed the names, always referring to him as 'Jack Flack'. One day he said, "Mommy...dere's our pumpkin. His name is Jack...ummm...Jack..... Mommy, what's his aftername?"
- "Sud-eee?" Eli loves to ask us "Sud-eee go to get bagels?" "Sud-eee pway baseball?" "Sud-eee mow da grass?" He is attempting to ask "Should we?", but his s-plus-additional-letter-words aren't perfected yet.
- "Soak" On that same note, most words that have another consonant after 's' at the beginning are hard to understand when they are coming from Eli's mouth. "Soak" is how he says 'smoke', "soothie" is 'smoothie', and "sie-ders" is 'spiders'. I think that one is my favorite. "Mommy!! Look at the sie-ders!!"
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